A publication of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students of the East Nashville Hope Exchange

Summer Literacy ProgramMission: To strengthen literacy of at-risk children in East Nashville

By Jesuan Alvarenga and Parrish Dean

At East Nashville Hope Exchange, we go on field trips. On Thursday June 30th, we went to the Sports Hall of Fame attached to Bridge-stone Arena. When we were done with our scavenger hunt, we ran into a person who was in the hall of fame, former coach and athlete Charlie Anderson.

Charlie was a coach of almost all the sports in high school. When he coached junior college, the team won a national championship. He coached for fifty four years and as a coach, he had a thousand and eighty wins in basketball. He coached at local high schools, including Stan-ford, Old Central, Hillsboro and Bellevue.

His favorite sport to coach is bas-ketball, but he likes to play golf and tennis. He plays golf all the time. He plays three or four times a week in a group. He was not very good at playing basketball but he studied

it and became a coach. He won 1080 games. His favorite players in basketball are his players. He said “well, my favorite players are always my players, I love them.” His favorite professional team is the Warriors.

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Charlie Anderson with Jesuan Alvarenga and Parrish Dean.

Last week we sat down with Mr. Nathan Weinberg, who is a realtor.

He was our guest reader. After he read we asked him some ques-tions about his life and work. He has been a realtor for nine years. He wanted to be a realtor to help

people who don’t have a house and make people happy.

On a normal day he checks on his houses. He thinks it is sometimes hard to find open houses. He has

not always been in Nashville. He spent some time in Washington, D.C. He’s had to find a house for himself three times. It takes a lot of training to be a realtor. Thanks to Mr. Nate for coming to Hope Exchange!

To kick off our summer program and our newspaper project during week 1, East Nash-ville Hope Exchange took a ‘local’ field trip to the East Nashville neighborhood and enjoyed a stop at the Sawtooth Print Shop in the Little Octopus building. At Sawtooth, students learned all about how letter press posters are printed. They also enjoyed toffee and milk at the Divine Art Cafe.

The rest of the field trip focused on the changing landscape of their East Nashville neighborhood. Hope Exchange talked about

all the new real estate developments in the

neighborhood. The looked at three different de-velopments in different stages of completion. They even got to tour one development with realtor Nathan Weinberg. Students compared new buildings versus old buildings using a Venn diagram. Finally they enjoyed lunch at Shelby Park. Teachers asked students to think critically - “Should all land be developed or should we keep green spaces like Shelby Park?”

Special thanks to Nieves Uhl and Chris Cheney (owners of Sawtooth Print Shop), Nathan Weinberg and the Divine Art Cafe.

A visit to Sawtooth Press

A realtor tells allBy Leiah Holland and Jesuan Alvarenga, 4th grade

Hall of Famer shares story

Mr. Weinberg

A blueprint of one of Mr Weinberg’s buildings.

Staff photographer Calvin Milton documents the students’ experience at Sawtooth Press.

Nieves Uhl demonstrates the printing process.

Keyon Williams, Latrego Lewis and Jaiden Smith enjoy an outing at Shelby Park after visiting with Mr. Weinberg.

Calvontez Howse and Justice Jackson listen closely to guest teacher Emily Joy as they work on their poetry project, “Where I’m From.”

Where I’m from...Students work with poet Emily Joy to write “Where I’m From” poems that help students celebrate their family and community.

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By Shelia Bateman, Cortland Harris, and Ms. Toni (3rd Grade)

Ms. Linda Ragsdale is an author and an artist. She recently visited both East Nashville Hope Exchange locations. She read her book “Not Opposites” to students at the Ross location and helped them create “Peace Dragons” by folding and decorating paper dragons. At St. Ann’s she read “Words” to stu-dents and helped the students draw dragons. “Words” is about happi-ness and using nice words. She also gave students hero bracelets to remind them to be strong and help people. Third grade students sat down with Linda to find out a little more about how she got into writing for children.

When her kids were little, Linda love to read them “Chicka-Chic-ka-Boom-Boom.” Linda said her reason for writing books was that

she loved books when she was a kid, she figured that she wanted to share her love of reading with other kids. Linda told the students “I have actually written five drawing books and I have three books that I have written in the country of India,

and I have one adult book, and then I have these two picture books (‘Words’ and ‘Not Opposites’), and then I have another two books coming out.”

Linda also loves to draw. She draws peace dragons with kids all around the world. Right now there are over 23,000 peace dragons in the world. After Linda’s visit, many third grade students agreed that they also love to draw. For example, She-lia and Joshee like to draw flowers and cats. Mason said he likes to draw dogs.

Students were interested in Linda’s favorite color. Linda told them that right now she really likes purple, but, “I love all colors, because if we didn’t have all colors, I couldn’t color everything in the world.”

Linda gave students great life ad-vice when they asked her if she had

ever met mean people. She said, “I think there are a lot of mean people, but when you treat them with kind-ness, it softens the mean-ness.” The students agreed that they have met mean people. One student even said that she is mean sometimes. Anoth-er student shared she likes to play to calm down.

Linda shared, “I think that we forget sometimes that we are hu-man, and we get angry. So I wrote “Words” as a way to say to people that, “Yes, we get angry, but it depends on how we act after we get angry that makes all the difference in the world.’”

By ENHE 3rd grade class

On Friday, June 17, 2016, East Nashville Hope Exchange visited the downtown Nashville Public Library. They hosted the Nashville International Puppet Festival. There were puppets from around the world.

We participated in puppet shows, making shadow puppets, mak-ing hand puppets and were given the chance to see our creations in action. We also had the opportunity

to witness a puppet show that told a story. The puppet characters in the play were amazing. We met people with hand held puppets on strings that we were allowed to interact with and actually touch. Some of the puppet favorites were the granny puppet, a goose, and a monkey pup-pet. Listening to a jazz concert while having lunch was fun and relaxing.

There was also a man on stilts that provided group interaction and

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The Puppet Festival

Flowerpot Press author

Teaching about the power of words

SubmittedThe fourth grade class enjoys a juggler at the Nashville International Puppet Festival.

Linda Ragsdale with ENHE students

By Treyvon FryerClaude Bain of iStep Kidz is

making a difference this summer at ENHE. Through teaching step, he hopes to instill ethics and morals and to be a good role model.

In his spare time he likes to read adventure, action and comedy books. He also likes to listen to all kinds of music. He teaches step dancing because he is very pas-sionate about it and he wants to share the passion with everyone. Step is great way to learn values about life, it is also a form of ex-pression with more of a historical connotation. It was originally used as a way for African Americans to express themselves. Claude has a

mom, dad and older brother that is 4 years older than him. Claude is 22 years old and attended college at Fisk University, a historically black college. The reason Claude likes step is because it is a great way to stay in shape. He loves the meaning behind it, the energy, enthusiasm and the way it makes people feel. At the Hope Exchange he is trying to instill the ethics and morals to be a good role model. He tries to correct and critique along the way. Claude really wants the kids to love step as much as he does, he also hopes that with his presence they can see an influence of a guy who came and loved what he did. He wants them to do step with their peers!

Stepping up to teach kids

Mason Huff, Shelia Bateman, London and Paris Hendricks and Zaria Paxton practice their step routine with “Mr. C.,” Claude Bain.

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By Calvin Howse

Timothy Anders, from the Nash-ville Ballet, performed at Hope Exchange with his friends.

They performed Emperor and the Nightingale.

Mr. Anders didn’t want to be a bal-let dancer at first. He really wanted to tap dance.

Then later he started to see all the cool lifts and jumps you get to do and how much strength it actually takes to be a male ballet dancer. He really likes the challenge behind it and also it’s just a lot of fun and athletic. He likes to dance because it gives you a chance to tell a story to different people and express whatev-er the choreographer directs on the

stage. Dancers communicate with their

legs, arms, faces as well as the people on the stage. They want the audience to feel as if they

are really experiencing the story. They communicate with the music working with our bodies using that with the timing and everything to tell the story. Ballet was always his career path, but he’s had a bunch of jobs like, teaching ballet, con-struction,and he works at a pizza place.He’s done quite a few things, but this has been his main career path he’s heading down. He actu-ally wears soft kinds of shoes like slippers. Guys will wear these where you can move your feet and girls will wear the hard shoes.

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Timothy Anders in the ballet performance

Calvin Howse interviewing Timothy Anders

Dancer tells his story

Thank you to all of our supporters!

Without your help this newspaper – and the meaningful learning opportunities recorded in it – would not have been possible.

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Art4Moore of the Tides FoundationChrist ChurchCommunity FoundationDan and Margaret

Maddox Charitable FundThe Dandridge FundFlowerPot PressFranklin Web PrintingGenescoHumanities TennesseeJoe C. Davis FoundationJunior League of NashvilleThe Ledger NewspaperLockeland Springs Neighborhood

Association

Looking Out FoundationMDHA (funds from CDBG for summer

youth programs)Metro Nashville Public SchoolsThe Memorial FoundationMetro Nashville Arts CommissionPilot/Flying JPredators FoundationProject One FourSt. Ann’s Episcopal ChurchSt. David’s Episcopal ChurchSt. George’s Episcopal ChurchT and T Family FoundationThe Turnip Truck

The Metro Nashville Police Horse Mounted Patrol visited and read to the kids. Other readers included Linda Furtado, Leland Stanton (top right), Dwight Lewis, Arnold Malcolm, a radiation oncologist (retired) and professor as Meharry, Mary Hance and many more. Forty-five guest readers from the community gave their time to serve as role models for the ENHE children.

June 20th- June 24th, 2016

A Week of Hope By Marquia Cooper and Treyvon Fryer, 2nd grade

For four weeks of our summer program, we are lucky to have volunteers come from ‘A Week of Hope,’ for a mission trip. For the third week of our program, some volunteers from Charlotte, North

Carolina came to help out East Nashville Hope Exchange. The volunteers were middle and high school students. The people from the Week of Hope wanted to help people in Nashville. Volunteers enjoyed reading and playing with Hope Exchange students.

Above, Cortland Harris and her mom pose during the field trip to the Sports Hall of Fame.Below, Aubri LeRoy and Treyvon Fryer read the first take-home book of the summer, ‘Dragon and the Knight.’

The author of Lemonade for Sale, Stuart Murphy, writes childrens book. Lemonade for Sale is about the Elm Street Kids Club, who were sad, because

their club house was falling down. They had no money, so they de-cided to sell lemonade.Their lem-onade stand was a success. This book was so interesting, because it taught us how to make and sell lemonade. Read this book for

yourself to learn more about creat-ing and selling lemonade.

The third grade was the product development team for the lem-onade stand business. The team had to decide what recipe to use for the lemonade. First they held a taste test with all ENHE stu-dents. Four different lemonades were made: freshly squeezed, powder-ready mix, ready-made in a jug, and from concentrate. There was a tie vote for powder-ready mix and freshly squeezed. As a class, third grade had to make a decision between freshly squeezed lemonade, with real lemons, or powder-ready mix. They consulted with business management and marketing about what type of customers there are at Turnip Truck and learned Turnip Truck is a natural market. They voted and decided to make freshly squeezed, which was the healthier way. Therefore, they chose to use

a recipe for freshly-squeezed lem-onade, that told us some key things about making lemonade, like how much lemons to use and how much sugar to add.

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Advertising for Hope Exchange Lemonade Stand has been an excit-ing experience. First we researched how to create an advertising sign. We learned that your sign needed the business name, symbol, logo, slogan, and important informa-tion. We consulted with Mr Billy, who taught us many things about a business plan. He helped create a hashtag for social media. (#EN-HElemonadestand) We were so proud of our advertising product.

By 4th Grade ClassFourth grade was responsible for training second and third grades about

customer service, hygiene and food safety. We also figured out the schedule for the classes. We listed jobs with descriptions and made two lists with the supplies and equipment that we would need.

To buy what we needed, we got a loan from Hope Exchange. Then we had to determine the cost of our lemonade based on prices from three vendors. We chose Aldi because it was cheapest.

From the total costs we decided on a price: $3.00 per cup. Then we had our Lemonade Stand to benefit foster kids through Monroe Harding.

ENHE Good Cold Lemonade

Marketing/PromotionBy 2nd Grade Class

ENHE Good Cold Lemonade

Product DevelopmentBy 3rd Grade Class

Elm Street Kids sell lemonade By 2nd Grade Class

Business Management planning

ENHE students developed a business plan and ran a lemonade stand to learn about business. They sold 150 cups of lemonade at Turnip Truck. After accounting for expenses they earned a profit of $373 to be donated to Monroe Harding.

TeeShayla Davis works on the sign for the lemonade stand.

Justin Robinson, 4th grade, taste testing the lemonade.

Leah Holland asks Billy Hearn, guest teacher, a

question about pricing.

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Genesis Vasquez, Mya Hendricks and Shelia Bateman listen closely to Billy Hearn to learn as they discuss how to make fresh-squeezed lemonade.

Sofia Viust loves working on the signs for the Good Cold Lemonade stand.

By the 3rd GradeEast Nashville Hope Exchange

enjoyed reading “Brothers at Bat”. This book was about twelve brothers that formed a baseball team.

It takes place during the 1930s, when most families had a lot of children. This particular family, the Acerras’, had twelve boys and four girls.

The Acerra boys formed a baseball team that became very good and very competitive. But this was also a team and a fam-ily that cared for and supported each other.

They experienced a lot of good times together but also endured the

hardship of the great depression and World War II, where they served in the military.

This family survived and came together again to resume playing baseball. The evidence of their popularity and fame became known when the Baseball hall of fame hon-

ored them in 1997. Only sev-en were still alive but many other family and friends were there to recognize their contribution to the sport of baseball and the world.

The book was even more appealing, because we were able to view actual photograph of the Acer-ra baseball team.

All brother baseball team

I interviewed Hardy Atkell at St. Ann’s Church. He is a rookie hock-ey player, originally from Sweden and he started hockey when he was 9 years old. He told me his favorite things about hockey is playing it, traveling and being with his team-mates.

His favorite player on the Pred-ators hockey team is Roman Josi. Roman is the an alternate captain on the Predators and plays defense.

When Hardy is not playing hockey for 3 to 4 hours a day, he has fun things he likes to do. These include fishing and watching sports. He likes watching soccer and football and listening to country music.

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At left, the Nashville Predators visited with East Nashville Hope Exchange students. Justin Robinson shares his stickers with Rookie player Mark Visentin from Canada.

Below, Christoan Amos and teacher Keith Stanton have fun with decorating sports posters with the Pred.s

Below left: Keyon Williams poses with a statue of Peyton Manning.

Lonnie Holland interviewing Nashville Predators rookie, Hardy Atkell, from Sweden.

Do you like sports? I do. Who is the better player LeBron James or Stephen Curry? I think Stephen Curry is the better player.

I think Stephen Curry is better because first, he helps kids become a better player. I know because in a

Time Magazine it said “Stephen Curry helps kids become a better players.”

I think Stephen Curry is the better player because second, he

reached his goals. I know because his goal was to become a better play-er and he reached it. Now he is the best player on the team.

I think Stephen Curry is the better player because third, he had im-proved. I know because he won an award and is the best player. That is why I think Stephen Curry is the better player. He helps kids, reached his goals, he improved. So go check him out. On the Golden State War-riors.

Basketball is better than baseball.Because you can use your hands. Would you rather watch basketball or baseball? I would rather watch basketball because basketball is more fun to play and look at. Basketball is better and more popular. You can bounce the ball. You can run with it while you are bouncing it. You can shoot the ball with your

hands into the goal. You can pass the ball with your hands. You can carry the ball with your hands. You can bounce the ball away from the person. You can run away with the ball. Basketball is better. You can use your hands, you can bounce the ball, you can run

with it while you are bouncing it. Go to a basketball game.

Football is better because more people come to watch. There’s more

cheering. There’s less canceled games. People take more pictures. Titans play harder in their games. It has a faster pace. There’s less breaks in the games

and more playing. There’s less com-plaining about weather.

Interview with a PredBy Lonnie Holland

Who is better?

Basketball or baseball?

Football or basketball?

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OPINIONCalvin Howse

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OPINIONTarhiyaSledge

Joshee Watts, Mason Huff, Amazhia Readus, Keyon Williams, and Mya Hendricks with the book, “Brothers ar Bat.”

Jesuan Alvarenga, Parrish Dean, and Ezacki Eboku take their places on the podium at the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.

By Cortland Harris and Andnevin HuffEast Nashville Hope Exchange took a field trip to the Global

Education Center. Charlie Gilbert played the drums, Jeimy Gil-bert and Tirra Hargrow led us in dance and Ellen Gilbert present-ed an interactive museum.

When we arrived, the teacher told us we had to take a mental trip to different Latin countries to learn how they dance. We got on the plane and flew to Puerto Rico where we learned Sal-sa. Then we boarded the airplane again and flew to Columbia. In Columbia they dance the Cumbia. After that, we went to Bra-

zil and learned to Samba. To dance the Samba, you have to use your arms not just your legs. Everyone sat down because we were tired and ready to take a break, but Ms. Tirra made us get back on the plane and travel to Mexico City. This is where we danced Zumba.

Next, we enjoyed an interactive museum on Latin cul-tures. We learned about the Mexican American War of 1812. She showed us lots of artifacts. One was a hammer made of wood. Another was a mask made of wood. There were handwoven clothes, bongo drums, maracas, and rain sticks. Students really liked the mask and the bongos.

By Tarhiya Sledge

Ruby’s Wish is a book written by Shirin Yim Bridges and illustrated by Sophie Blackall. It is a true story about the author’s grandmother, Ruby. Ruby lives in China, and she likes to walk to the grocery store and the pet store in the morning. She likes to play outside with her brothers and sisters and cousins. She lives in a big castle with her grandparents, aunts, un-cles, sisters, brothers, parents, and cousins. The grandpa is rich. He went to California, joined the Gold Rush, and he came back rich and got a big castle. He hired a teacher to teach his grandkids who wanted

to learn. Ruby went to school, and usually girls don’t go to school. For New Year’s Eve, she watched the fish swim in the thick icy cold water. Ruby’s favorite color is red, and she always wears the color red even if

it’s not New Year’s Eve. If her mom tries to put a different color on her, she won’t wear the different color clothes that her mom puts her in.

People should read this book because this book is the best

book in the world and it’s China. I like the pictures of the animals at the pet shop, the yellow and green birds, the fish, and the turtles. I also liked the ending. Come on, give the book a try.

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is by William Kamkwamba and Elizabeth Zunon. It takes place in a

small village in Africa and they are poor and broke. The boy dropped out of school because he didn’t have enough money. He went to the library

down the road and learned how to build a windmill. The windmill helped his country grow food. I like the book because it is teaching you how different people are on the map.

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This book can inspireLatrego Lewis

True story of a girl in China

Our Latin America dancing adventure

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Aubri:My favorite place is Mississip-

pi. I go to see my Grandpa. Also we went to the store. I went with my mom, dad, brothers, and sisters. I like it because I go see my fami-ly. You should go there because it is fun. It is fun because you get to go other places and there are big beaches.Asia:

I want to go visit Florida, because I want to go to Coco beach and the mall. I would go with my family and friends. People should go to

Florida because it is fun! I like it because I can go to Coco Beach and because my Granddaddy lives

there.Tarhiya:I want to go to New York.

Brooklyn is in New York and it takes 278 minutes to get there. Others should go there

because it has wonderful librar-ies, it has amazing restaurants,

it has great hotels, and great, great fun pools. I like New York because it is my favorite place in the whole entire world and the best places. I would go to the pool and bring my

mom, dad and baby brother.Jesuan:

I have been to Miami Florida at the beach. They gave us a nice hotel and also we went with one of my other family mem-bers. We went to dinner and we had a tour of the hotel. Others should go because there is a little store for kids in the hotel and there is a beach. I like it because at the hotel there is a beach right outside and a store for kids in the hotel. Cyonna:

I want to go to Washington D.C.

because I want to see the White House, so I can see where

the presidents go to do their speeches. And

see what kinds of pictures they have of presidents. I want to see the president go on stage. I want Mr. Obama to be our president again. I would want to go alone when I am older. I want to be president so I can be on stage like all the other presidents. Latrego:

In Miami you can go to the beach, have fun, play, meet people, eat, and go to the water.

Where I like to go

Above, Genesis Vasquez tries out the xylophone. At right Arthur Muñoz tries on a sombrero.

Tarhiya Sledge with a copy of the book she reviewed.

Dawn HunterMy favorite thing

about summer is the trip I took to Chattanooga. First, I went to the Chat-tanooga Aquarium. My favorite thing to see at the aquarium was the jellyfish. Next, I went swimming at the hotel. I also was able to get in the hot tub. The last day I was in Chattanoo-ga, I went to the Children’s Museum and Chattanooga Ducks. They let me drive the duck. I can’t wait to go back next year.

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Arthur Munoz, 2nd grade

My favorite thing about summer is vacation. First, I have no homework and more time to do more fun stuff. Second, I don’t have to wake up early. Last, I get to travel and spend time with my family. Vacation is fun, but it it has to come to an end.

Justin Robinson, 4th grade

My favorite things about summer is visiting my family and friends. One of my favorite things is being out of school. I like to go to my Granny’s because I can play with my cousin. I like my visits with my dad. These are a few things I like about Summer.

Vaniya Reid, 1st grade

My favorite thing about winter is building a snowman, throwing snowballs and getting presents at Christmas time. I really like winter.

Zaria Paxton, 4th grade

My favorite thing about summer is playing and reading books. I like spraying people in the face.

I like reading books because some of the books are funny. I like water play because I can get wet. I think playing and reading with my new friends is fun.

East Nashville Hope Exchange’s (ENHE) mis-sion is to strengthen the literacy of at-risk chil-dren in East Nashville. Our vision is to inspire “reading for life” in our children and their fam-ilies. We emphasize summer learning, family and community engagement, and striving for grade-level proficiency in reading. During the summer we operate intensive 6 week instruc-tional programs staffed by certified teachers with individualized literacy instruction and a thematic focus of “My Family, My Community,

My World,” through books, proj-ects, daily guest readers, and field trips. Weekly family workshops teach families how to support literacy at home and do well in school. During the school year we support student progress through monthly family workshops, tutor-ing, facilitation of nightly reading at home, follow-up phone calls, and home/school visits.

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entertainment for the entire group. Some memories from the group included one from Genesis who stated that her favorite puppet at the festival was the twins that helped tell the story during the play.

Calvontez liked the battle between the twins and the underground peo-ple, also part of the play. Overall, it was an adventurous and fun day.

>> Puppets from p3

Lonnie Holland, staff photographer for the day, takes a selfie with a clown at the International Puppet Festival

Pick your favoriteseason...

ENHE students practice writing persuasively

Asia, Jasmine, Amazhia, Cenek; caption: ENHE students Asia Washington, Jasmine Williams, Amazhia Readus, and Cenek Woods practice their choral performance for the finale with Eric Dozier.

Dawn Hunter sits behind the wheel of the Chattanooga Duck on her visit to one of her favorite places.

Special thanks to Flowerpot Press for donating 1,725 books to ENHE this year to ensure each student takes home a new book to

read and keep every day of our program!